Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination [Audiobook] download free by Toni Morrison
- Listen audiobook: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Author: Toni Morrison
- Release date: 1993/8/12
- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780679745426
- Rating: 7.74 of 10
- Votes: 618
- Review by: Erik Keegan
- Review rating: 7.42 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 1H10M29S in 256 kbps (18.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, OPUS, MP3, MPEG4, WAV (compression ARC, 7Z, RAR, RPM, TAR.7Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 91
- Includes a PDF summary of 10 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 8M9S (2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to 'put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World-without the mandate for conquest.' Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature-individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell-are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn.A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morri
- Other categories, genre or collection: Black & Asian Studies, Literary Studies: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.13 USD
- Dimensions: 127x197x8.38mm
- Weight: 136g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United Kingdom
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